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" Well, the moment has arrived. And if you&amp;#039;re a high school senior, you know exactly what I mean by &amp;quot;the moment.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;re compulsively refreshing your web browser and anxiously waiting for the mailman to arrive at your door. Yep, it&amp;#039;s college acceptance time.  If you&amp;#039;re anything like what I was a year ago, you&amp;#039;re an absolute mess \u2014 your nights are restless and your days are long. In fact, I remember being so nervous that one night, I had the most amazing dream that I got accepted into, well, my dream school. Then, the dream suddenly turned into a nightmare in which my acceptance was a mistake and that I actually got rejected. No joke. I woke up in tears. Fortunately enough, by the time I got my actual college acceptance letters, I wasn&amp;#039;t rejected by any schools. But, can I let you in on a little secret? I was waitlisted to my top three dream schools. Simply put: It was devastating. I&amp;#039;d been perfecting my transcript since I was in the fifth grade hoping to get into these schools. Yeah \u2014 I know \u2014 since fifth grade. Even though I decided to remain on the waitlist until mid-July, I was eventually told that no more spots were being offered. So that must mean... Yep, you are right, my friend \u2014 UNC was NOT one of my top schools! You&amp;#039;re probably thinking: How can this be?! Katie acts like UNC is Disney World or something.A) You&amp;#039;re absolutely right in assuming so.B) UNC truly is like Disney World. Here&amp;#039;s the thing though: All that time I was sulking over being waitlisted, I was so caught up in this whole illusionary &amp;quot;dream school&amp;quot; label that I took no time to recognize how truly wonderful of a school UNC is. Up until I had to make my actual decision to come here, I always imagined going to a small, private, out-of-state school in a large city. Guess what UNC is? A large, public, in-state school in a small town. And you know what? I couldn&amp;#039;t be happier(!), and I certainly couldn&amp;#039;t see myself going anywhere else. I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. If you&amp;#039;re sitting at the computer reading this right now after having just found out that you&amp;#039;ve been rejected or waitlisted, I want to let you know that, speaking from experience, IT&amp;#039;LL BE OKAY! Go ahead \u2014 get mad, swear and cry. Then, I want you to do something relatively unheard of for someone in your position: GET FREAKING PSYCHED! You are about to experience the best four years of your life \u2014 no matter where you go. That whole &amp;quot;dream school&amp;quot; label isn&amp;#039;t always what it&amp;#039;s cracked up to be, anyway. College is as much of a dream as you choose to make it. As for me? I&amp;#039;m living the dream, baby ;) &amp;quot;What seems to us bitter trials are often blessing in disguise.&amp;quot; -Oscar Wilde No worry beef curry, XOs, and all that other jazz, Katie :) Got a question for me about being waitlisted? Or, do you just want to tell me where you&amp;#039;re going? Leave a comment below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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